please have a look to your saslauthd start script, there is an entry with MECH=
-Thomas On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:37 -0400, Edward Corrado wrote: > I believe that it is currently going through PAM, which in turn looks at > the systems passwd files. > > Edward > > Thomas Börnert said the following on 8/1/2005 11:30 AM: > > >which method uses your saslauthd ? i think its pam in your case ... > > > >On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:06 -0400, Edward Corrado wrote: > > > > > >>Hello All, > >> > >>I have a Cyrus IMAP install (2.1.x on RH 9 with Fedora Legacy updates) > >>and when someone checks there mail, it is authenticating against the > >>password in /etc/passwd (well, /etc/shadow really) instead of the > >>password created in the sasl database using saslpasswd. I'd like it to > >>use the sasl password if possible (which it seems it is), however, I > >>can't seem to figure out what to change to make it use the passwords > >>created by saslpasswd instead of the "regular" password on this system > >>The /etc/imapd.conf file contains the following two lines: > >> > >>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd > >>sasl_mech_list: PLAIN > >> > >> > >>It seems that maybe changing the second one could be of some help, but I > >>don't know what it should be. In case it helps, the whole imapd.conf > >>file is: > >> > >>configdirectory: /var/lib/imap > >>partition-default: /var/spool/imap > >>admins: cyrus > >>sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve > >>sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail > >>hashimapspool: true > >>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd > >>sasl_mech_list: PLAIN > >>tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem > >>tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem > >>tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt > >> > >>Does anyone have any suggestions? > >> > >>Thank you, > >> > >>Edward > >> > >>--- > >>Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > >>Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > >>List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > >> > >> > > > > > > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html